How to submit assignments for 15-463.

For each assignment, we created two directories for every student in the class:
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/academic/class/15463-f11-users/username/projectname/code/
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/academic/class/15463-f11-users/username/projectname/www/

Place your project report in the www directory. Make sure that your main report page is called index.html so browsers open it automatically. You may test the page by visiting
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/academic/class/15463-f11-users/username/projectname/www/
This directory is publicly accessible, so please don't place any sensitive material (Like Code!) here.

Place all source code used to generate your results, as well as any documentation required to use the code, in the code directory.

Remember: it always pays to check early that you have no problems creating and deleting files in the submission directories. Given that the AFS space for 15-463 is hosted at CS.CMU.EDU and not at Andrew, a cross-realm authentication is necessary. If you are using some of the Andrew unix machines, you can do this cross-realm authentication by typing: aklog cs.cmu.edu

Step by Step How to submit assignments

1. Use WinSCP or your favorite scp/ftp tool to copy all your files to your Andrew home directory
2. Log in to a linux Andrew machine: ssh username@linux.andrew.cmu.edu
3. Get cs credentials: aklog cs.cmu.edu
4. Copy website to your project directory: cp -r yourwebsitedirectory /afs/cs.cmu.edu/academic/class/15463-f11-users/username/projectname/www/
5. Copy code to your project directory: cp -r yourcodedirectory /afs/cs.cmu.edu/academic/class/15463-f11-users/username/projectname/code/

Problems we have encountered

• Do not try using WinSCP or similar to copy directly from your laptop to your class project directory. You don't have the credentials (i.e. you can't run aklog cs.cmu.edu through WinSCP)
• Sanity check: type tokens to see your afs tokens; after running aklog you should see two lines, one for andrew and one for cs.
• Afs gets unhappy if your quota is full. Run fs quota to see the percent used; if it's close to 100 percent, delete things (java and matlab dumps, large tif's...) before trying the copy again.
• Your project directory is linked to your Andrew id; if you use a CS computer (*.cs.cmu.edu), and run into trouble, try the instructions above, using an Andrew computer to hand in your work.

Labs Available (coming up soon)

While you're worrying about submitting your assignment, let me mention something that might make that looming deadline seem a little more distant:

somehwere in Gates Hall there are matlab machines

Lots of moderately fast machines with Matlab, local storage, and a few gigs of memory.
Reserved especially for a select few graphics courses and, thus, hardly ever busy.
Available day and night via SSH to ghcXX.ghc.andrew.cmu.edu (where XX goes from 01 to 79), and anyone can ssh to those machines and have access to matlab. And, honestly, there's no reason not to set your andrew account up so you can use it right now. Here's how:

1. SSH to unix.andrew.cmu.edu.
2. Run /afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/weh5336/SetupAndrewAccount.pl to create a 5336 in your andrew home directory containing all the necessary files.
3. SSH into the Gates Hall machines to see if you can log in. Your username will be username@ANDREW.CMU.EDU.
4. Contact your TA if there are problems